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No verdict Saturday at Jacques Corriveau fraud trial in Montreal

Oct 29, 2016 | 3:15 PM

MONTREAL — The jury at Jacques Corriveau’s fraud trial will be back at work Sunday after no verdict was reached on the second full day of deliberations.

The 83-year-old former federal Liberal organizer stood trial on charges of fraud against the government, forgery and laundering proceeds of crime.

Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean-Francois Buffoni told the jury of eight men and four women on Thursday they must decide whether Corriveau knowingly used his influence to secure himself some $6.5 million in kickbacks between 1997 and 2003.

The Crown alleged Corriveau set up a kickback system on government contracts awarded during the federal sponsorship program and used his Pluri Design Canada Inc. firm to defraud Ottawa.